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Re:When good ideas make bad business by ghostbrainalpha on Friday January 03, 2020 @12:13PM (#21947896)
I feel like the best play would have been to spend 100% of his effort to get WebMD as the first Angel Investor.

If WebMD owned 20% of his product, for say $300k in Seed Money, he could have used that Runway to build something really cool.

And WebMD would have an incentive to promote his site and help bring free users.

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Re:When good ideas make bad business by professionalguy on Friday January 03, 2020 @12:19PM (#21947975)
that's exactly what I was thinking - plus what startup story is complete without some VC intervention?
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Re:When good ideas make bad business by ghostbrainalpha on Friday January 03, 2020 @02:11PM (#21949238)
Does anyone know Bob Brisco the C.E.O. of Web MD?

I'm going to try and get this in front of them using my contacts, but it is a long shot.

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